Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-09-30
THE COST OF WAR.
SCENES IN OUR CIVH VAR IND
OTHER WARS COMPARED.
THE LOSSES AT SHILOH MUCH
GREATER THAN AT WATERLOO.

GREATER THAN AT WATERLOO.
A Washington correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette has been comparing the sta
tistics of the loss by death Of Union
soldiers during the Rebellion, with
the mortality of other wars. Re
ports show that the northern ana
southern armies met in more than
1000 skirmishes and battles. In
14S of these conflicts the loss on
the Federal side was more than
500 men, and in at least ten battles
more than 10000 men were report
ed lost on each side. The append
ed table shows that the combined
losses of the Federal and COnfeder-
ate forces, in killed, wounded and
missing, in the following engage
ments, were: Shiloh, $4,000; An
tietam, 3S, 900; Stone river, $1,000;
Charlottesville, $4,000; Gettys-
burg, "a, 900; Chickamauga, 5000;
McClellan's peninsular campaign,
$50 600 and Sherman's campaign,
125,OOO. Waterloo was one of the
most desperate and bloody fields
chronicled in European history,
and yet Wellington's casualties
we're less than II per cent, his
losses being 2,432 killed, and 95S
wounded ont of over 100000 men,
while at Shiloh one side lost in
killed and wounded $40 out of
$4,000, while their opponents re-
port their killed and wounded at
9,616, making the casualties about
80 per cent. At the great battle
of Wagram Napoleon lost but
about 3 per cent. At Wurzburg
the French lost but 81 per cent,
and yet the army gave up the field
and retreated to the Rhine. At
Racour, Marshal SAKE lost but p
per cent. At Zurich, Massena lost
but s per cent. At Lagriz, Fred
erick lost but 64 per cent. At
| Malplaquet, Marlboro lost but 10
per cent, and at Families the
same intrepid commander lost but
6 per cent. At COntras, Henry
of Navarro was reported as cut to
pieces, vet his loss was less than
| 10 per cent. At Lodi, Napoleon
lost II per cent. At Nalmy, Fred
erick William lost but 3 per cent,
aud at the great battles of Maren'
20 and Austerlitz, sangunlary as
they were, Napoleon lost an aver
age of less than 144 per cent. At
Magenta and Solferino, in 1859, the
average loss of both armies was
| less than 0 per cent. At konl-
grath, In 1866, it was 6 per cent.
At Woerth, Specheran, Mars lie
Tour, Gravelotte and Sedan, in
1870, the average loss was II per
cent, while at Linden General
Moreau lost but 4 per cent. in kill
ed and wounded. Americans
would scarcely call this a lively
skirmlsh. At Perryville, Murfrees'
boro, Chickamauga, Atlanta,
Gettysburg, Mission Ridge, the
Wilderness and SpOttsylvania, the
loss frequently reached, and some
times exceeded, 40 per cent. OF
fetal statistics show that OF the
100000 men enlisted, there were
killed in battle, 44,23S; died OF
wounds, 49,2O5; died of disease,
6,216; died of unknown causes
"a, 1874; total, 3O3,S43. This in
cludes only those whose death
while in the army had been actual
| ly proved. To this number should
be added. first, 10000 men who
are known to have died while in the
hands of the enemy as prisoners OF
war, and many others in the same
manner whose deaths are unrecOrd
ed; second, "a fair percentage OF
the 206, ,794 men who are put down
: on the official reports as deserters
and missing in action, for those
, who participated in the war know
that men frequently disappear
who, it was certain had not desert
ed, vet could not be otherwise OF
fcially accounted for; third, thou
sands who are buried in private
, cemeteries all over the north who
died while home on furlough. The
nations dead are buried in 73 ma
J tional cemeteries, of which only Il
are in the Northern States. The
proportion of death from all causes
, in the troops of each state was as
, follows: Maine, l IN Z; New
, Hampshire, l in Z; Vermont, l IN
, G.; Massachusetts, l in 9; Rhode
Island, in IL; Connecticut, in
10; New York, 1 IN 12; New Jer
sey, in II; Pennsylvania, l in II;
Delaware, l in 90; Maryland in
Q 26; Ohio, l in 0; Indiana, l in s.
Illinois, l in Z; Michigan, 1 IN g
Iowa, 1 in 5 5(uearly 6); Kansas,
= in 5; California, l in 20; WesI
5 Virginia, in o; Kentucky, l in 10
s Missouri, in 0; Wisconsin, l in Z
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